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ARRANGEMENTS 



Inauguration qfjhe President of the United States 
on the A-th of March, 1869. 



The doors of the Senate Chamber will he opened 
at 10 o'clock a. in. for the admission of Senators and 
others who by the arrangement of the Committee are 

entitled to admission, as follows: 

Ex-Presidents and Vice Presidents. 

Tlic Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the .Supreme Court; 
the Diplomatic Corps, Heads of Departments. ex-Members of either 
branch of Congress, and Members of Congress elect. 

Oiiicers of the Army and Navy who by name have received the 
thanks of Congress. 

( rovernoi s of States and Territories of the Union, and ex-( rovernors 
of States. 

Assistant Secretaries of Departments and the Assistant Postmaster 
General; the Assistant Attorney General and the Judge Advocate 
General ; the Comptrollers, Auditors, and Eegisters of the Treasury ; 
the Solicitors of the several Departments ; Treasurer, Commissioners, 
Judges of tbe Federal Courts and of the Supreme Courts of tbe 
several States. 

Tbe Mayors of Washington and Georgetown and the reporters in 
tbe Senate. 

All of whom will be admitted at the east door of tbe north wing 
of the Capitol.. 

The families of the President, President elect. Vice President pro 
tern., Vice President elect, Senators, Diplomatic Corps, Heads of 
Departments, and Federal Judges will enter at the north door of the 
Senate wing; all others will enter at the main eastern door. 

All the galleries, except those for the reporters and the families of 
the Diplomatic Corps, will be open to those holding tickets. 

Seats will be placed in front of the Secretary's table for the Presi- 
dent of tbe United States, tin' President elect, and the Committee of 
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Ex-Presidents and Vice Presidents, the Chief Justice and Asso- 
ciate Justices of the Supreme Court will have seats on the righl pf 
the Chain 

The Diplomatic Corps will occupy seats on the right of the < 'hair. 

next to the Supreme Court 

Heads of Departments will occupy seats on the left of the Chair. 

Officers of the Army and Navy, Governors of States and Territo- 
ries of the Union, ex-Governors of Slates, Assistant Secretaries of 
the Departments, the Assistant Postmaster General, the Assistants 
Attorney General, and the Judge Advocate General, Comptrollers, 
Auditors, and Register of the Treasury, Solicitors of the several 
Departments, Commissioners, Treasurers, Judges, and the Mayors 
of Washington and Georgetown, will occupy seats on the right and 
left of the main entrance. 

Members of Congress and Members elect will enter the Senate 
Chamber by the main entrance, and will occupy seats on the left of 
the Chair. 

The rotunda shall be closed, and the passages leading thereto 
kept clear. 

The other doors and entrances to the Capitol, excepl those to be 
open under this arrangement, will be kept closed. 

At 11 o'clock the President of the United States and the President 
elect, each accompanied by members of the Committee of Arrange- 
ments, will proceed in carriages to the east door of the Senate wing 
ot the Capitol, and, entering there, will be conducted to the rooms 
assigned them. 

The Vice President elect will be accompanied to the Capitol by a 
member of the Committee of Arrangements, and conducted to the 
Vice President's room, and afterwards into the Senate Chamber, 
where the oath of office will be administered to him by the Vice 
President jtrn t< hi. 

The Diplomatic Corps and the Justices of the Supreme Court will 
enter the Senate Chamber a few minutes before the President elect. 

The Senate will assemble at Pi o'clock. 

The Senate being ready, the President of the United States and 
the Pre-ident elect will be introduced by the Committee of Arrange- 
ments to the seats prepared for them in the Senate Chamber. 

After completing the organization of the Senate, those assembled 
in the chamber will proceed to the platform on the central portieo of 
the Capitol in the following order : 

The Marshal of the Supreme Court. 

Ex-Presidents and ex-Vice Presidents. 

The Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court. 
The Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate. 



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The President elect, with members of the Committee of Arrange- 
ments. 

Tlie President of the United States, with members of the Com- 
mittee of Arrangements. 

The Vice President and the Secretary of the Senate. 

The members of the Senate. 

The Diplomatic Corps. 

Ex-Members of the House of Representatives, and Members elect 
to the Forty-first Congress. 

Heads of Departments. 

Governors of States and Territories. 

Officers of the Army and Navy, and all other persons who have 
been admitted to the floor of the Senate. 

On reaching the front of the platform, the President elect will take 
the seat provided for him ; the Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate (in 
charge of the ceremonies) on his right, and the Chief Justice of the 
Supreme Court on his left. 

The President and the Committee of Arrangements will occupy a 
position in the rear of the President elect. 

Next in the rear, the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court will 
occupy the seats on the left, and the Vice President, Secretary, «,nd 
Members of the Senate those on the right. 

The Diplomatic Corps will occupy the seats next in the rear of 
the Supreme Court. 

Heads of Departments, Governors and ex-( Governors of States and 
Territories, and ex-Members of the Senate, ex-Members and Members 
elect of the House of Representatives, in the rear of the Members of 
the Senate. 

Such other persons as are included in the preceding arrangements 
a\ ill occupy the steps and the residue of the portico. 

All being in readiness, the oath of office will lie administered to 
the President elect by the Chief Justice; and on the conclusion of 
the President's address, the members of tie- Senate, preceded by the 
Sergeant-at-arms, Vice President, and Secretary, will return to the 
Senate Chamber, and the President, accompanied by the Committee 
ol' Arrangements, proceed to the President's House. 

The Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate is charged with the execution 
of these arrangements. 
All horses and carriages will be excluded from the Capitol Square. 

Should the weather prove unfavorable, the ceremony cf the inau- 
guration wil! take place in the Senate Chamber. 

RICH API) YATES, 
A. II. CKAGIN, 
T. C. McCREERY, 

Commits e. 



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